Black Health Editorial team

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Gout in Black men: causes, the sudden attack, and long-term control

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, it is rising, and it runs harder in Black men. Here …

Black Health Editorial team May 1 9m

Denzel Washington got his minister's license at 70. The Black church he's stepping into is one of the largest open frontiers in Black men's mental health.

In December 2024, days before his 70th birthday, Denzel Washington got baptized and received his minister's license at …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 7m

DeMar DeRozan said he was depressed in a tweet in 2018. Eight years later his book is still doing the cultural work for Black men talking about mental health.

DeMar DeRozan posted on Twitter in February 2018 that he was struggling with depression. The post moved the …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Tina Knowles disclosed her stage 1 breast cancer in 2025. The mammogram she almost skipped is exactly the screening conversation Black women need.

Tina Knowles published her memoir Matriarch in April 2025 (Knopf, Oprah's Book Club 2.0). In the press tour …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Dr. Ala Stanford built the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium during the pandemic. Five years later her structural-health work is still the template.

Dr. Ala Stanford rented a van in April 2020 and started showing up in Philadelphia church parking lots …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones gave US public health the Levels of Racism framework. It is the lens running underneath most of our reporting.

In 2000, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones published Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale in …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 30 6m

Insomnia in Black Adults: Why Sleep Is a Health-Equity Issue

Black adults are far more likely to get too little sleep and to have insomnia go untreated, and …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 29 10m

Tabitha Brown lost a year to chronic pain. The research on Black women and undiagnosed illness explains why so many readers see themselves in her story.

Tabitha Brown's path to TikTok fame started with a year she could not work. The recovery account that …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 28 6m

Dr. Uche Blackstock built her career as an emergency physician. Then she wrote a book about why medicine fails Black patients.

Dr. Uche Blackstock left academic medicine in 2019 and founded Advancing Health Equity. Her 2024 memoir LEGACY (Penguin …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 28 6m

Pulse oximeters fail Black patients. The science, the FDA's response, and what to ask in the ER.

In December 2020, a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine documented that the small device clipped …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 27 9m

How to find a Black therapist: what the evidence says about race-concordance, cultural adaptation, and what to ask in the first session

Black clients prefer Black therapists at moderate-to-strong rates across 52 studies. Race matching alone barely changes treatment outcomes. …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 27 7m

Ernie Hudson is the new face of Black-men's-cancer screening. Here is the evidence behind starting earlier on three cancers.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation's 2024 Black-men screening guideline lowered the recommended baseline PSA testing window to ages 40 …

Black Health Editorial team Apr 25 9m

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Articles by Black Health Editorial team

Gout in Black men: causes, the sudden attack, and long-term control

Denzel Washington got his minister's license at 70. The Black church he's stepping into is one of the largest open frontiers in Black men's mental health.

DeMar DeRozan said he was depressed in a tweet in 2018. Eight years later his book is still doing the cultural work for Black men talking about mental health.

Tina Knowles disclosed her stage 1 breast cancer in 2025. The mammogram she almost skipped is exactly the screening conversation Black women need.

Dr. Ala Stanford built the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium during the pandemic. Five years later her structural-health work is still the template.

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones gave US public health the Levels of Racism framework. It is the lens running underneath most of our reporting.

Insomnia in Black Adults: Why Sleep Is a Health-Equity Issue

Tabitha Brown lost a year to chronic pain. The research on Black women and undiagnosed illness explains why so many readers see themselves in her story.

Dr. Uche Blackstock built her career as an emergency physician. Then she wrote a book about why medicine fails Black patients.

Pulse oximeters fail Black patients. The science, the FDA's response, and what to ask in the ER.

How to find a Black therapist: what the evidence says about race-concordance, cultural adaptation, and what to ask in the first session

Ernie Hudson is the new face of Black-men's-cancer screening. Here is the evidence behind starting earlier on three cancers.

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